Category Archives: reDRAFT

reDRAFT – 2011 NBA Draft

It’s been a few years since I added to our reDraft series. I like the ten-year mark to look back at a draft class and assess the talents. I used to do them after six or seven years, but if you go back and read some of those, they feel dated now due to some players peaking early.

In 2011, Kyrie Irving was drafted first overall by the Cleveland Cavaliers. He was arguably the consensus best player in the draft at the time. The drop-off after Irving was steep and few people thought anyone else should have been the top pick in that draft.

The Cleveland Cavaliers had two picks in the top-five. They selected Irving and power forward Tristan Thompson. Things could have been much different had they selected the players we pick in our reDraft.

We look back at the 2011 NBA Draft and reDraft based on their careers so far.

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reDRAFT – 2010 NBA Draft

With the 2018-19 NBA season set to tip-off this month, it’s time we look back at a past NBA Draft.

The 2010 NBA Draft was filled with future All-Stars and All-NBA talent. I would even say that a couple of the players could one day be in the Hall of Fame.

John Wall was drafted first overall by the Washington Wizards in 2010. He was the consensus best player in the draft. One could argue that the picks that immediately followed him were pretty bad. Who knows how well those teams would have been if the Sixers, Nets or Timberwolves would have selected DeMarcus Cousins or Paul George.

The Indiana Pacers did the most with their picks in the 2010 NBA Draft. They selected Paul George at #10 and Lance Stephenson at #40. Those players were a huge part of their playoff teams in the mid-10’s.

We look back at the 2010 NBA Draft and reDraft based on their careers so far.

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reDRAFT – 2009 NBA Draft

It’s been awhile since we did an NBA reDRAFT.

The 2018 NBA Draft takes place this week, so it’s a good time to look back at a past NBA Draft.

The 2009 NBA draft class is top-heavy with two Hall of Fame talents and one that could be right-at-the-border by the time he retires.

Yes, Steph Curry, James Harden and Blake Griffin get all the attention in this draft, but the draft class as a whole is underrated. There are a handful of All-Stars as well as guys like Ricky Rubio, who is coming off what may have been his best season of his career. There are a few other late-bloomers that make up the top thirty picks of the 2009 NBA reDRAFT.

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reDRAFT – 2011 NFL Draft

It’s impossible to grade professional sports drafts immediately after they’re done. It’s easy to just play armchair general manager the next day. The NFL team that drafts the most popular players from teams with the largest college football fanbases, get the highest draft grades. No one is giving a team an A+ to a team that drafts interior linemen.

I recently completed a reDRAFT re-do of the 2010 NFL Draft and think I need to pump out the 2011 version. These two draft classes are quite different from a talent standpoint, but do have one thing in common, it wasn’t a very good quarterback class. Cam Newton was on another level compared to the rest of the group with Andy Dalton, Tyrod Taylor and Colin Kaepernick on the next level down.

In a draft class with Cam Newton, J.J. Watt, Von Miller, Richard Sherman and Julio Jones, which player gets taken first overall?

Which players would be taken in the first-round in a re-do of the 2011 NFL Draft?

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